78 Quotes by Hal Borland

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.

The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are the unseen tides that shape our days and our years.

There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.

All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.

To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.

Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.

For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.